“You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little ...” — Nick Nolte Quote

You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you're a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, 'Ah,' all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You're satiated.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

I've never been all that comfortable in real life.

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

Of all the things that can frustrate a guitarist the most, it's the nagging feeling that he's not reaching a certain level of proficiency as quickly as he should.